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Americans Buying Less Mundane Crap

Hamilton Nolan · 04/04/14 10:13AM

"Consumer packaged goods" is the technical term for everything you buy when you go to "the store" to "get some stuff." For years now, you, the consumer, have been buying less of this stuff. What gives?

The Junk Mail Industry Is Only Getting Bigger and Better

Hamilton Nolan · 01/24/13 12:24PM

If you have ever given twenty bucks to the Red Cross and subsequently been deluged by form letters from 136 other charities, you may have asked yourself, "What's the deal with all this junk mail?" Here is "the deal," as you so crudely put it: the junk mail industry is now far more technologically advanced than ever. Just give in.

Movies No Longer Worth It

Hamilton Nolan · 05/21/10 09:08AM

With the release of the appropriately monstro-schlocky Shrek Forever After on IMAX, movie tickets (in Manhattan, at least) are passing the "symbolically important" $20 price point. Yea, you know what else is symbolically important? Netflix. [WSJ]

Skull & Bones Skull for Sale

Hamilton Nolan · 01/05/10 12:34PM

Goodbye, mystique: A totem collector is auctioning off a magic skull/ stash box that once belonged to Yale's planet-controlling secret society Skull "n" Bones. Plus, "a black book with names and photographs of earlier members." Nick Denton, bid now! [AP]